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**Interarchy 8.1 Adds Amazon S3 Support** -- Peter Lewis and
  Stairways Software have released Interarchy 8.1, the latest
  version of their powerful file transfer software. New features
  in Interarchy 8.1 include support for Amazon S3 (Amazon Simple
  Storage Service, which provides storage to anyone for $0.15 per GB
  per month of storage used and $0.20 per GB of data transferred),
  the capability for Auto Uploads to upload to multiple remote
  directories, and a variety of other small fixes and improvements.
  Version 8.1 is a free upgrade for owners of Interarchy 8 and those
  who purchased Interarchy 7 after 01-Jan-06; for owners of earlier
  versions, it's a $20 upgrade, and new copies cost $40. [ACE]

<http://www.interarchy.com/>
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html/103-8992456-0700646?node=16427261>
<http://www.interarchy.com/documentation/8/whatsnew>


**iPhoto 6.0.4 Adds New Themes** -- Apple has released iPhoto
  6.0.4, an update to the popular photo-management application that
  fixes... well, nothing, apparently. Instead, the 36.4 MB download
  available directly or via Software Update adds new themes to the
  Greeting Card and Postcard features "including invite and thank
  you card designs for summer parties, weddings, birthdays, etc.,"
  according to Apple. Unfortunately, because Apple stores iPhoto
  themes within the iPhoto application package (instead of
  separately, as with iDVD 6 for example), adding new themes
  means downloading the entire application. Unless Apple has snuck
  in some other fixes without documenting them, this hardly counts
  as an essential update (though if you're printing cards, the
  update is more appealing). [JLC]

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/iphoto604.html>


**Universal Shake 4.1 Drops in Price** -- The latest Apple program
  to be released as a universal binary for native performance on
  Intel-based Macs is Shake 4.1, Apple's high-end video composition
  software used in many Hollywood productions. However, the more
  interesting news is that Apple slashed the price, from $3,000 to
  $500 (yes, the number of zeroes on those figures is correct).
  Rather than aiming solely for special-effects houses, the company
  is positioning Shake as an extension to Final Cut Studio. As Mike
  Curtis (who has extensive post-production experience) points out
  at his HD for Indies blog, however, Shake is not the sort of
  friendly application that average users are likely to pick up
  quickly; the price cut may indicate that Apple is moving on to
  Shake's successor, a possibility bolstered by the fact that Apple
  also announced that it is no longer selling the Apple Maintenance
  Program for Shake. Current owners of Shake 4 can upgrade to
  version 4.1 for $50. [JLC]

<http://www.apple.com/shake/>
<http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/>
<http://www.hdforindies.com/2006/06/apples-shake-now-only-499-and-what-it.html>
<http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2006/jun/20shake.html>


**FlickrExport 2.0 Enables Easy iPhoto Uploading** -- Connected
  Flow has released version 2.0 of FlickrExport, a plug-in for
  iPhoto 4.0 or later that makes it easy to upload images to
  the Flickr photo-sharing service. The new version can now add
  images to existing Flickr photosets and group pools, provides
  a list of tags that you've previously used to categorize photos,
  and more. The shareware FlickrExport 2.0 is a universal binary,
  requires Mac OS X 10.3 or later, and costs 12 euros; it's a
  1.4 MB download. [JLC]

<http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/>
<http://www.flickr.com/>


**Apple Updates Aperture, Pro Applications Frameworks** -- The
  high end of Apple's application line saw bug-fix updates
  last week. Aperture 1.1.2 "addresses issues related to overall
  reliability and performance," and is a 13.6 MB download.
  The more expansive Pro Application Update 2006-001 provides
  updates to several underlying frameworks that are used by
  Final Cut Studio (which includes Final Cut Pro 5.1, Motion 2.1,
  Soundtrack Pro 1.1, DVD Studio Pro 4.1, Compressor 2.1, and Apple
  Qmaster 2.1), Shake 4.1, and Final Cut Express HD 3.5 (which also
  includes LiveType 2.1). [JLC]

<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/aperture112update.html>
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/proapplicationupdate200601.html>
<http://www.apple.com/finalcutstudio/>
<http://www.apple.com/shake/>
<http://www.apple.com/finalcutexpress/>


**Web Crossing Neighbors Creates Private Social Networks** -- Web
  Crossing, Inc. last week announced the public availability of
  WebCrossing Neighbors, a hosted service that businesses and
  other organizations can use to create customized online social
  networks for customers, employees, or interested users.
  WebCrossing Neighbors provides interest groups, personal user
  spaces, profiles, blogs with comments, discussions, photo and
  file sharing, access controls, system-wide searching, email
  services, and more. Each user has a space for personal content
  and for automatically updated links to new content from friends.
  Users can also create shared interest groups distributed via
  a Web-based forum or email, all managed with access lists.
  The first site using WebCrossing Neighbors is CarSpace from
  Edmunds.com, which is using it to create a private sandbox for
  car fans - a rather popular sandbox, to judge from the hundreds
  or even thousands of posts in some of the discussion groups.
  Prices for WebCrossing Neighbors start at $200 per month and
  depend on storage and bandwidth used. [ACE]

<http://webcrossing.com/Home/webcrossing_neighbors.htm>
<http://www.carspace.com/>



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